Profession Updates in Patch 8.1

Battle for Azeroth introduces some new recipes in Patch 8.1! Check out the major updates in our post below, and our profession guides for all the details.\r\rNew Materials\rTwo new materials have been added for professions: Tidalcore and Breath of Bwonsamdi. Similar to Hydrocore and Sanguicell, they are used to craft new Epic quality profession gear coming with Patch 8.1. The older reagents, such as Sanguicell, can be obtained through new transmutes from all professions.\r\r\rTidalcore: Obtained from bosses when running Heroic and Mythic level dungeons in BfA and used for crafting new epic 385 item level profession gear. \rBreath of Bwonsamdi: Obtained from bosses in the new raid Battle for Dazar'alor and used for crafting new epic 400 and 415 item level profession gear. \r\r\rSpecial Note: The Battle of Dazar'alor raid will not be immediately available with the release of Patch 8.1, so Breath of Bwonsamdi will not be obtainable right away. The raid will release in January 2019.\r\rNotable Recipes\rThere is a new set of crafted gear at ilvl 385, 400, and 415, including Engineering Goggles and Jewelcrafting Rings. These items are BoP and also require you to have the profession to equip them.\rMost notable for Alchemy is new, higher item level Alchemist Stones and a new transmute for turning excess herbs into Anchor Weed. The Potion of the Unveiling Eye also increases stealth detection.\rChefs can craft Honey Potpie to slow attacker's movement speed, a new series of +Stamina food, Boralus Blood Sausage as primary stat food, and Sanguinated Feast as an alternate raid feast.\rEnchanters can create Expulsom, a battle pet Enchanted Tiki Mask, and new ways to convert reagents (Veiled Shatter, Veiled Shatter).\rScribes can craft Contract: 7th Legion and Contract: The Honorbound--good news for those who need reputation!\rEngineers can craft Unstable Temporal Time Shifter, an unreliable battle Rez, and purchase the recipe for the mechanical spider Mechantula from the Gnomeregan Battle Pet Dungeon.\rScribes also have two fun Water Elemental cosmetic glyphs for Mages - Glyph of Storm's Wake for light blue, and Glyph of the Tides for dark blue.\rLeatherworkers can increase the amount of Midnight Salmon caught via Scarlet Herring Lure.\r\r\r\r\r\rWe've updated our profession guides with the reagent changes and materials coming throughout the staggered patch cycle.\r\rAlchemy Guide\rBlacksmithing Guide\rCooking Guide\rEnchanting Guide\rEngineering Guide\rFishing Guide\rHerbalism Guide\rInscription Guide\rJewelcrafting Guide\rLeatherworking Guide\rMining Guide\rSkinning Guide\rTailoring Guide

Comments

Comment by Oixio

on 2018-12-07T03:50:16-06:00

amount of mats required to craft any of those stuff is insane\rNO normal person can grind this amount of mats, specially when key ingredients are soulbound ...\rchanges like this make any profession obsolete, since no sane person could craft any of those desired items

Comment by Mcfrosty

on 2018-12-07T03:58:57-06:00

Never understood why the crafted items are BoP, anyone care to enlighten me or do I just chalk this one up as another Blizzard logic...

Comment by SgtGrumbles

on 2018-12-07T04:01:33-06:00

Is there any reason to be a tailor or enchanter anymore?

Comment by XxTimetoKillxX

on 2018-12-07T04:02:51-06:00

amount of mats required to craft any of those stuff is insaneNO normal person can grind this amount of mats, specially when key ingredients are soulbound ...changes like this make any profession obsolete, since no sane person could craft any of those desired items

Pretty par for the course amount of mats for all this stuff. If you're a hardcore player youll get them very quickly and if youre not youll get them at a reasonable pace too, considering you play less you have less need to have them quickly anyways. You're not supposed to get the higher ilvl stuff very quickly.

These are really laughable grinds compared to ones of old

Comment by Snurp

on 2018-12-07T04:04:46-06:00

amount of mats required to craft any of those stuff is insane\rNO normal person can grind this amount of mats, specially when key ingredients are soulbound ...\rchanges like this make any profession obsolete, since no sane person could craft any of those desired items\r\rWhat items are you referring to? The 415 gear requires 200 Breath of Bwonsamdi. Given 9 bosses in the new raid, that will take 2 full clears on normal and heroic per item (if they drop 10 \/ 1 like in Uldir). That's actually really fast to get an item of this ilvl.

Comment by tiggerbox29

on 2018-12-07T04:10:49-06:00

BfA is another xpac where i can safely skip over proffs and it wouldnt make a single difference just like in Legion, WoD etc etc

Comment by Buuloki

on 2018-12-07T04:16:48-06:00

Hopefully this makes leveling professions a bit easier. Kul Tiran Master of All seems so daunting to complete at the moment, because of Expulsom.

Comment by Hearte

on 2018-12-07T04:33:23-06:00

Is there any reason to be a tailor or enchanter anymore?\r\rTailor, especially.

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Comment by IceWolfDK

Still, Jewelcrafting seems a solid pick due to the ability of crafting bop rings. Rings are generally a total pita to get ahold of, plus these comes with a guaranteed socket.

Comment by Torntuska

on 2018-12-07T05:17:38-06:00

When ever I read the stuff coming in patch 8.1 I just feel like I have been spit in my face.\rThese changes are a welcome one but wtf is wrong with blizzard why would I ever spend the insane amount of time trying to get these mats.\r\rAll the things that made professions special with questlines, rare boss drops, special vendors(in dungeons\/raids), limited recipes are just gone and missing since legion.

Comment by Snurp

on 2018-12-07T06:00:12-06:00

When ever I read the stuff coming in patch 8.1 I just feel like I have been spit in my face.\rThese changes are a welcome one but wtf is wrong with blizzard why would I ever spend the insane amount of time trying to get these mats.\r\rAll the things that made professions special with questlines, rare boss drops, special vendors(in dungeons\/raids), limited recipes are just gone and missing since legion.\r\rAs you are not the first one that brings up "expensive" recipes: Really what am I missing here? Where is an expensive item in terms of mats or time? They updated the craftables to 340 (possibly 350 with proc) so you can equip every new alt in a heartbeat and be warfront and LFR ready. They added some new items like the contracts for the same amount as their existing counterparts. The 2 pets are dirt cheap.\r\rWhat's going on? Where is the expensive recipe? I simply don't get it?

Comment by Vibriss

on 2018-12-07T06:08:25-06:00

Never understood why the crafted items are BoP, anyone care to enlighten me or do I just chalk this one up as another Blizzard logic...\r\rAnd here I am with Tailoring on my Rogue. I guess she can at least craft cloaks?

Comment by Torntuska

on 2018-12-07T06:30:27-06:00

\rAs you are not the first one that brings up "expensive" recipes: Really what am I missing here? Where is an expensive item in terms of mats or time? They updated the craftables to 340 (possibly 350 with proc) so you can equip every new alt in a heartbeat and be warfront and LFR ready. They added some new items like the contracts for the same amount as their existing counterparts. The 2 pets are dirt cheap.\r\rWhat's going on? Where is the expensive recipe? I simply don't get it?\r\rOfcause they had to update the ilvl to keep it relevant for none raiding people.\rI am saying why would you keep making the epic items BoP and at a high cost when clearly it will take you so much time to farm them at that point the chances are that you alrdy have a 415 ilvl in that slot is pretty high.\r\rSure the rest like pets, toys, rep stuff has to have the same cost.\r\rAlso are you really looking forward to the new warfront and lfr on alts? Rep is now shared and so is the neck upgrade so gearing alts is just as easy as before, now it might take you 10mins instead of a few hours, since you have 2 warfront zone to farm rares in.\r\rIt seems like you are just playing this game cuz you have nothing else to do.\r\rPersonaly I was looking forward to leveling the zandalari trolls and kul tiran humans but thats has again been postponed.

Comment by Mike21daisu

on 2018-12-07T06:32:44-06:00

Still trying to figure out what to do with my 2k Sanguicell on my inscriptioner.

Comment by snugdreamer

on 2018-12-07T06:34:52-06:00

I'd love player housing, it would be a nice way to play. I hope we can collect lanterns, bowls of fruit, chairs, etc to decorate with. It would be cool to be able to make your home and garden by collecting items through quests, drops from bosses and by crafting. A cozy Pandaren home with bubbling pot of brew\/soup in the corner, or a leather Tauren tent with hanging dream catchers, a serene Night Elf home with peaceful garden or a Dwarf stone fort with stout pillars and ornate trim. I would enjoy spending time collecting and creating my haven in the world as I don't raid much anymore and I think it would just be something great to be available to players and another avenue of customization\/game play (through collecting and decorating and maybe even a small farm and pet house). I would like it to be relaxing though, and not tied to story or systems.

Maybe in the future woodworking will make furniture for homes. And tailors can make curtains and bedsheets. I'd also like professions to have (even if just cosmetic) tools and equipment that we work on while crafting, for instance looms, anvils, jc desks, instead of just twirling our hands a over and over. I think a housing feature (purely optional, not mandatory as stated above) would help provide professions a new and lucrative and fun outlet - creating, trading, crafting, farming to make our perfect comfy homes.

:)

Comment by Chasedon

on 2018-12-07T06:53:37-06:00

Still trying to figure out what to do with my 2k Sanguicell on my inscriptioner.

Apparently you\u2019re supposed to eat them. Which frankly sounds like the worst idea my warrior has had since stomping around Northrend with a bucket made from Yogg-Saron\u2019s blood strapped to his head.

Comment by Chilela

on 2018-12-07T07:10:30-06:00

Still trying to figure out what to do with my 2k Sanguicell on my inscriptioner.\r\rI'm guessing pick up cooking and make feasts.\r\rOn an unrelated note, it amuses me that only now are we getting Sanguicell recipes for alchemy stones.

Comment by Deployed

on 2018-12-07T07:24:26-06:00

Tailors will always have the lucrative bag monopoly, as far as money making goes.\r\rIt's a shame that 3 expansions in a row have attempting to either do something new or "fix" professions but continue to fall on their face. Pets and toys are nice, but they're not important.\r\rI put it down to how restricted gear setups are now. Well, to be honest that really started post TBC with the removal of resistance gear and post Wrath with the removal of tank specific gear. It's all diluted and samey. Sadly that was a change that was useful to many specs in order to aid with the reduction of gear they carried around, but it makes things less creative, which is the bane of all crafting mechanics.\r\rNever understood why the crafted items are BoP, anyone care to enlighten me or do I just chalk this one up as another Blizzard logic...\r\rIt's meant to be a way to reward the profession by giving them something distinctive. Think back to Mists when only Blacksmiths could put sockets into their Bracers and Gloves or how only Engineers can have tinkers on their gear. Honestly, the idea of Blacksmiths having a gear set that only they can have to show off that they are a proficient Blacksmith has been something that has been brought up by the community since Vanilla. People want to be rewarded for their hard work.\r\rFor me, that means a Blacksmith should have a set that helps with Blacksmithing, not to help with combat, as gear production really should be a supply aspect of the game, but that is also something that doesn't get felt when you end up making so few items because it's so easy to get something equal or better in quality.\r\rHowever, then I remember back in TBC when I ran Arcatraz over and over again for the Whitemend Pants item, but it was so elusive that by the time anyone in my guild got it, it was redundant because it would break a tier set in most cases, or because it was so old that anything from a raid, or hell, loot from Magister's Terrace, was so much better. So it's definitely not a new problem, it just seems to affect more profession items since basic raiding became a thing.

Comment by IceWolfDK

on 2018-12-07T07:25:01-06:00

They never postphoned the new allied races again, they always said they would be past dazar alor.